Kan U believe it? @e_adebayor Testimonial game, his career has been an incredible journey. We’re all immensely proud of him, and the continent celebrates his achievements. It’s a joy to honor such a man with a big heart. I’m proud to have been part of this journey. God bless you
African legends Anthony Baffoe, El Hadji Diouf, Eto’o, Kanu, Mboma, Okocha, Gyan, Doumbia, Kalou et al played a gala match in front of a large crowd in Lomé, Togo to celebrate the retirement of 2008 African Player of the Year Emmanuel Adebayor.
Election officials in Indiana were conducting a public test of the voting machines ahead of the general elections in November. A republican politician was part of the test. The politician complained that the result of the test was wrong. Election officials investigated why the result was wrong and CCTV footage showed that it was because the politician stole two ballot papers.
Former Republican congressional candidate in Indiana charged with stealing election ballots
A former Republican candidate for Congress in Indiana has been charged with stealing election ballots during a voting machine test earlier this month.
Larry Savage, who lost in the Republican primary in the 5th Congressional District in Indiana in May, has been charged with one felony count of destroying or misplacing a ballot, and one misdemeanor count of theft, according to Indiana State Police.
On Oct. 3, officials were conducting a public test of the ballot card voting system in Madison County in central Indiana, using four voting machines and 132 ballots marked for testing, police said. During the test, two ballots were discovered to be missing after an initial tabulation.
Police said surveillance video showed Savage, a precinct committeeman, folding those two ballots and placing them in his pocket, after being told they were valid test ballots.
A judge issued a search warrant for Savage's home, where they found the missing ballots in his car.
Savage turned himself in at the Madison County Jail on Tuesday after a warrant was issued for his arrest. He has since been released on $500 cash bond, according to Madison County Jail records.
Note: The purpose of these matches is to see which home based players can join the main team. That's why majorityof the player are home based players with a sprinkling of foreign based players.
Governor Sanwo-Olu met both teams at the newly commissioned J Randle Museum, which is very close to the stadium. This event happened a day earlier.
Babajide Sanwo-Olu @jidesanwoolu
Today, I met with the Super Falcons and the Algerian national women’s team ahead of their friendly match tomorrow at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, Onikan.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu meeting the Super Falcons and Algerian national women team ahead of their friendly match at Mobolaji Johnson Arena (formerly, Onikan Stadium) tomorrow. The Governor, through Lagos State Sports Commission, sponsors the hosting of the match and hospitality around the event on behalf of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF).
👑 A Queen and More! Edo Queens' sensation, Ijamilusi Folashade, dazzles on her senior debut with two international goals in just 8 minutes against Algeria! 💥⚽ Folashade takes us 2-0 up, scoreline now 3-1—who's counting? 😉
Summary of the first article for those who think it is too long.
1) Ballot box set on fire in Portland, Oregon. 409 ballot papers were inside the box, but only 3 were damaged (fire suppressant saved the rest). The three people whose ballots were damaged will get replacement ballots.
2) Ballot box set on fire in Vancouver, Washington. It appears that the fire suppressant did not work properly and hundreds of ballots were destroyed (officials are still trying to get the exact number).
3) There was a previous incident in Vancouver on October 8th, during which a ballot box was set on fire. Police believe that the incidents are connected.
I pity people that are trying to explain things. The people that you are explaining to are not interested in common sense. You are basically just wasting your time.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MAN DISCOVERS STACK OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN STORM DRAIN
By Sid Garcia Friday, October 18, 2024
SIERRA MADRE, Calif. -- A Southern California man says he found a stack of election ballots stuffed inside a storm drain, and he's now speaking out about the discovery.
Jay Senese was doing some landscape work at his Sierra Madre home Saturday when saw something strange in the storm drain next to his house: nearly a dozen mail-in ballots.
He said he got on his hands and knees and started scooping them out and noticed the addresses were from his Arcadia neighbors a block away.
"We're trained here to keep stuff out of the storm drain... I pull out a bunch of junk mail and Ralphs ads and these ballots were mixed in with the junk mail... Of course, they catch my attention because we're seeing on TV about all of the care being taken to prevent fraud and misuse of ballots. It seemed a strange place for ballots to be. "
He says he tried to return them to the nearby post office but they were already closed.
His guess is someone went around the neighborhood opening up the mailboxes and emptying them. What the thieves didn't want, they dumped in the storm drain.
He shared with Eyewitness News that he doesn't receive a lot of mail. He said, for him, its safer.
"I'm one of those people who's got almost everything coming in paperless. I don't get a lot of personal mail. The only thing I get these days... might be a replacement credit card or something."
If you haven't received your mail-in ballot and you believe it may be lost or even stolen, the L.A. County Registrar-Recorder's website allows you to request a replacement by filling out a form online. You can only do this once.
And according to the website, it will not change your registration status.
Mr Senese says he plans on going to the post office this afternoon to return the ballots he found.
Hundreds of ballots damaged after ballot box set on fire in Washington state: Officials
The incident is believed to be connected to two others in Washington and Oregon.
By Meredith Deliso, Chris Boccia, and Lucien Bruggeman October 28, 2024
Ballot boxes in Oregon and Washington were set on fire with incendiary devices early Monday in what authorities believe are connected incidents, police said.
The two arson incidents, which occurred near the Oregon-Washington border, are also believed to be connected to a third ballot box incident that occurred earlier this month in Vancouver, Washington, police said.
In the first reported incident on Monday, Portland police responded to a fire at a ballot box around 3:30 a.m. local time, police said. Security at the Multnomah County Elections Division responded and extinguished the fire, officials said.
"Our officers quickly determined that there was an incendiary device that had been attached to the ballot box, and that is what ignited this fire," Portland Police Bureau spokesperson Mike Benner said at a press briefing on Monday.
The bureau's explosive disposal unit cleared the device, police said.
Fire suppressant prevented further damage and protected "virtually all the ballots," though three were damaged, the Multnomah County Elections Division said in a press release.
Elections officials said they are contacting the three impacted voters so they can receive replacement ballots.
Multnomah County Elections Director Tim Scott told ABC News that 409 ballots inside the ballot box "were undamaged" and preserved thanks to the fire suppressant.
Oregon Secretary of State LaVonne Griffin-Valade said the limited impact to ballots "shows that our systems are safe and secure."
"Make no mistake, an attack on a ballot box is an attack on our democracy and completely unacceptable," Griffin-Valade said in a statement. "Whatever the motivation behind this incident, there is no justification for any attempt to disenfranchise voters."
No other ballot boxes or official drop sites in Multnomah County were affected, the division said.
The Portland Fire Investigations Unit is investigating.
About a half hour later, around 4 a.m. local time, officers in Vancouver, Washington, responded to a report of a ballot box that was smoking and on fire, police said.
"Officers arrived and located a suspicious device next to the box," which was on fire, the Vancouver Police Department said in a statement.
The fire was extinguished, and members of the Metro Explosive Disposal Unit safely collected the device, police said.
"Hundreds" of ballots are believed to have been damaged on Monday, though an official number has not yet been determined, Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said at the press briefing.
Fire suppression devices are also installed in ballot drop boxes in the county, though they do not appear to have worked well, said Kimsey, who added that they're going to try to obtain better fire suppression devices.
The Clark County Auditor's Office will be working to ensure impacted voters have replacement ballots in time, officials said.
"We take the safety of our election workers seriously and will not tolerate threats or acts of violence that seek to undermine the democratic process," Washington Secretary of State Steve Hobbs said in a statement. "I strongly denounce any acts of terror that aim to disrupt lawful and fair elections in Washington state. Despite this incident, I have complete confidence in our county elections official's ability to keep Washington's elections safe and secure for all voters."
Monday's incident is similar to an incident that occurred on Oct. 8 in Vancouver, in which a ballot box was smoking and on fire with a "device" next to it, Vancouver interim Police Chief Troy Price said during the press briefing.
We do believe the incident here [in Portland] is connected to the two incidents in Vancouver," Benner said.
Police have identified a suspect vehicle, a possible Volvo that was captured on surveillance footage near the ballot box in Portland, Benner said.
A motive remains unclear, Portland Assistant Chief Amanda McMillan said.
"We do know that acts like this are targeted and they're intentional, and we're concerned about that intentional act trying to affect the election process," she said at the press briefing on Monday. "We're dedicated to stopping that kind of behavior, and we're working toward that today."
The FBI is also investigating the incidents "to determine who is responsible," an agency spokesperson said.
Portland Gov. Tina Kotek commended the "rapid response" from law enforcement and election officials.
"Voter intimidation or any criminal act to undermine the upcoming election is un-American & will not be tolerated," she said in a statement on social media.
Both Oregon and Washington are one of several vote-by-mail states, with ballots returned by mail or at an official drop box. Washington also has voting centers open to accept ballots.
Meanwhile, I tried to explain this to some people a few years ago, but they demonstrated that they didn't have the mental capacity to comprehend it, so I left them alone.
Dangote will move products over water, rail and by road through Ijebu Ode and Ondo State.
Dangote‘s first sea cargo of petrol arrives Lagos as key refinery ramps up
Our Reporter October 26, 2024
Nigeria’s Dangote refinery, larger than any other in Africa or Europe, has shipped its first seaborne petrol cargo as a vital fuel-producing unit continues to ramp up.
The Sabaek sailed with about 500,000 barrels of petrol from Dangote to the nearby commercial hub of Lagos in recent days, according to a port report and ship-tracking data compiled by Bloomberg.
Meanwhile, the refinery’s residue fluid catalytic cracker, a crucial unit in the production of the fuel, is continuing to ramp up output, according to a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be named discussing private information. Spokespeople for Dangote didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Once fully operational, the 650,000-barrel-a-day plant will transform the regional gasoline market, potentially reducing the need for imports of the fuel from Europe to West Africa. It has already shaken up crude oil flows by trimming an overhang of Nigerian supply.
This first shipment via sea comes about one month after the new refinery began using trucks to transport petrol.
A refinery’s RFCC unit helps upgrade petroleum products into more valuable fuels like gasoline.
The Dangote Petroleum Refinery has so far received four cargoes of crude oil from the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited under the naira-for-crude sale agreement.
It was gathered that the four cargoes of crude were delivered to the refinery within the past three weeks when the government began the sale of crude to local refineries in the local currency.
Officials said that the refinery was still waiting to receive more crude oil cargoes from NNPCL, the organisation managing the country’s hydrocarbon resources. They also confirmed that the $20bn Lekki-based plant was now set to begin the direct sale of refined Premium Motor Spirit, popularly called petrol, to domestic dealers.
A source close to the Technical Subcommittee on Domestic Sale of Crude Oil in Local Currency, who did not want to be mentioned because he was not permitted to speak with the press, confirmed to The PUNCH that “more cargoes (of crude) would be delivered to the Dangote refinery in the coming weeks.”
The official disclosed that the programme started with the Dangote refinery as the only petrol-producing facility in Nigeria at the moment.
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That guy will keep asking you questions, even after you have answered them. He will repeat the same questions over and over.
